Swastika Night

Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by the British writer Katharine Burdekin, published under the pseudonym Murray Constantine. Published in 1937, it imagines a world where Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich has been realised. A cult of masculinity prevails and women are deprived of all rights. The book was forgotten for many years until it was republished in 1985. Chan Koonchung reads it as a cautionary tale about a state that could stay in power.